I am co-director of Fortuna Admissions, a boutique MBA admissions consultancy firm of former Directors and Associate Directors of Admissions from Wharton, INSEAD, Harvard Business School, Chicago Booth, London Business School, NYU Stern, IE, Northwestern Kellogg, and UC Berkeley Haas (www.fortunaadmissions.com), and also the chief editor of MBA50.com, a website dedicated to the world's top business schools (www.mba50.com) .
I am the author of the bestseller "Getting the MBA Admissions Edge", sponsored by Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, BCG and Bain. I co-organize international media conferences that bring together business schools and universities with editors from Forbes, FT, BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, WSJ, The Economist and other global and regional media in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
I founded the World MBA Tour in 1995, which I co-directed for 12 years, organizing business school fairs in over 40 countries.
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The Personal Journey of an Effective Leader

Looking for a formula for leadership? Keep looking. No one is born an effective leader – it is always a journey that you take. And of course not everyone is going to successfully make that journey.

The reality is that different leaders have each found different ways to lead effectively, based on who they are and their experiences, both good and bad. And through those experiences they learn about themselves, stretch themselves, and become more effective at leading other people.

So where can business schools make a difference in leadership development?

In this interview with Peter Zemsky, Deputy Dean of degree programs at INSEAD, he talks about how business education can help MBA students to become better leaders, in an environment designed to test them, push them, stress them, and expose them to different perspectives on the personal journey to leadership.

He also tackles the debate about whether business school research really matters, and shares his thoughts on management as an art or a science.

Many top business schools ask MBA applicants to describe a failure, and what they learned from the experience. In our second interview, Peter Zemsky talks about his personal experience, and why schools that encourage diversity might be prepared to take a bet on you? Click here to see his answer, and find out what a truly multi-cultural MBA has to offer for your personal and professional development.

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